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Still life stories

Artist : Volokhova Maria

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Height (cm): 55

Width (cm): 260

Depth (cm): 130

Weight (kg): 5

Material: porcelain

Technique: slip-casting

Year of completion: 2013

Work Status: restituita

Materials

slip cast

porcelain

Drawing upon Vanitas (Dutch Still Life Painting 17° century), “Still Life Stories” deals playfully with one of the fundamental paradoxes: the preservation of the fleeting. In “Still life stories,”
the abundance of consumer and material culture is both parodied and literally rendered as food for thought. On the border between Art and Design “SLS” presents a series of food containers in forms that echo those of these classical Vanitas paintings but interpret them in a contemporary manner.

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